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Strengthening China-African Ties to Fight Covid-19: Policy and Actions

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9:00 am October 2020

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29
11:30 am October 2020

Webinar 

 

Our President, Dr. Karim El Aynaoui, will be giving opening remarks during the SIIS Africa Forum 2020, held online on Thursday, October 29th at 09:00 (Moroccan time). The webinar, organized by the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS), the Policy Center for the New South and the Africa Policy Institute, will discuss the Chinese-African relations in the times of the Covid-19, under the theme “Strengthening China-African Ties to Fight Covid-19: Policy and Actions”. This online event aims to build a bridge for African and Chinese experts to share information, learn successful experiences and contribute wisdom on closer China-African cooperation in fighting Covid-19 and simulating economic and social activities.

Our Senior Fellow, Mr. Mohammed Loulichki, will be chairing the Panel One “COVID-19 in Africa: Impacts and National Response”. This panel will focus on Covid-19 in African and national response. Panelists will share their ideas on the situation of Covid-19 in Africa, including its economic and social impacts, as well as the progress and challenge of national response.

Speakers
Karim El Aynaoui
Executive President
Karim El Aynaoui is Executive President of the Policy Center for the New South. He is also Executive Vice-President of Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Dean of its Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences Cluster. Karim El Aynaoui is an economist. From 2005 to 2012, he worked at the Central Bank of Morocco where he held the position of Director of Economics, Statistics, and International Relations. At the Central Bank of Morocco, he was in charge of the Research Department and equally a member of the Governor’s Cabinet. Previously, he worked for eight years at the World Bank as an Economist for its regional units of the Middle East and North Africa and Africa. Karim El Aynaoui has published books and journal articles on macroeconomic issues in developing countries. Hi ...
Mohammed Loulichki
Senior Fellow
Mohammed Loulichki is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. He brings over 40 years of comprehensive experience in diplomacy, conflict resolution, and human rights. He has served in various roles including as a member and Deputy Head of the Moroccan delegation to the 3rd Conference on the Law of the Sea (1982-1990), Head of the Department of Legal Affairs and Treaties at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1988-1991), and General Director for Multilateral Affairs in the same ministry (2003-2006).   He also acted as Morocco's Ambassador to Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Croatia (1995-1999), and was the Moroccan Government's Ambassador Coordinator with MINURSO (1999-2001). Furthermore, he served ...